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Unfold Weekly presents tips and tools on hiring remotely...

Oooo the sweet smell 🌹…of a new job, limitless opportunity, the world is your oyster! Well, not really. The process of finding a job, applying, interviewing, and ultimately accepting (if they’re lucky) is broken.

Future of Work

With the move to remote work and the explosion of digital, why don’t companies do hiring better 🤷? Your guess is as good as ours, but probably change takes time — both to accept and to happen. Nevertheless, most professionals will likely stay away from offices in the foreseeable future (unless forced back). Now obviously this whole experience at the very least is weird, yet it has definitely accelerated the gradual shift of people working remotely full-time. See below:

1. Slack finally realized that Slack makes permanent remote work possible

2. Here Are The Companies Leading The Work-From-Home Revolution

3. Buffer: State of Remote Work

(There’s a lot of articles like the above. It’s redundant. Get on board.)

If you dislike that notion, or think it’s a fad, you’re missing the broader point. An opportunity exists to find talent that otherwise is unavailable. Hiring remotely means your talent pool is national, or even global. Give it a try — all the big sites (LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter) make it easy for candidates to search for remote jobs.

One last tip where you can find high caliber professionals cheaply or even free🆓 — local MBA students. If you want advice with the nuances here, let us know (we have experience in providing cheap and free work as MBA students).

SaaS Weekly

Want to use software to speed up your remote search and hiring process? Check out the resources section below for tips from people who did it before you. Don’t reinvent the wheel…

• Fetcher.ai

• Lever.co

• harver.com

Need a fast, easier, and lower cost talent option? Hire a consultant or contractor to get your proverbial remote hiring feet wet 🏊.

• catalant.com

• Toptal.com

• Talmix.com

Or, check out these specialist job boards:

• Remoteok.io

• dailyemote.com

• remote.co

If there are any other sites you feel passionately about, please share

Learn More

Basecamp founder Jason Fried is a big proponent of remote work. See his reddit post on quick tips, some insights, read his 2013 book📚, or watch his video.

See Laurel Farrer, an expert in this space to go deeeeeeep.

Buy this online book.

Do you really need more convincing, c’mon🤦.

• How remote first company Doist hires remotely here

• Tips from Harver here

• How Buffer does it here

  Remote hiring is here to stay and will help shape the workforce going forward. If your business misses the wave🌊, you may lose access to top talent across the globe.